Thursday, May 17, 2012
Andrew Westfall and Stephen Johnston, students in Rider University's Entrepreneurial Studies program, were finalists in the New Jersey Collegiate Entrepreneur of the Year Competition.
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Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Rider University. Two Rider University undergraduate students were recently named finalists in the New Jersey Collegiate Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. Andrew Westfall '12 of Allentown, N.J., earned second place for his company Plutomic LLC. Stephen Johnston '13 of White House Station, N.J., received third-place honors for his company, Tabhair Records & Music Publishing LLC. Westfall and Johnston, both students in the Entrepreneurial Studies program, competed against student entrepreneurs from universities and colleges across New Jersey, including Caldwell College student David Reeth, who received first-place honors for his Awesome Auto LLC, a mobile detailing service business…
Lawrence High School varsity softball players appeared before the Lawrence Township school board Monday (May 14) to speak out against the school administration’s decision not to renew the contract of their coach, Tara Harrigan.
Members of the Lawrence High School varsity softball team appeared before the Lawrence Township Board of Education at the board’s meeting Monday night (May 14) to speak out against the school administration’s decision not to renew the contract of their coach, Tara Harrigan. Harrigan, a physical education teacher at Lawrence High School, was hired in January 2011 to fill the position left vacant by the retirement of Len Weister, who spent 38 years working in Lawrence Township schools, according to district officials. “We recently found out that Tara Harrigan, a gym teacher and our softball coach, was not asked to return next school year,” Amanda Toto said after she and her teammates walked up to the podium during one of the meeting’s public…
The PTO-sponsored picnic on June 14 will be part of Ben Franklin School's ongoing 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Lawrence Township Public Schools. Calling all former and current Ben Franklin students, teachers, friends and families. Ben Franklin Elementary School is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with a PTO-sponsored Family Picnic on Thursday, June 14, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Please spread the word and join us for a walk down memory lane reminiscing with current and former friends. The evening will include music (from the 1960's to today), food, family fun games, a time capsule dedication, scrap booking, and most importantly an opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. Please spread the word and join Ben Franklin for the festivities. We will also be selling brick pavers for the…
Monday, May 14, 2012
The state requires public school districts to pay the transportation costs for students attending private and parochial schools.
New Jersey public school districts have been paying to bus parochial and private school students for years. A report in The Asbury Park Press puts the annual cost at $77 million a year for about 90,000 students of religious and other private schools, money that comes out of local budgets funded by property taxpayers. According to the Press, districts are required "to spend up to $884 on transportation for each student attending a private school, be it on a school bus or a parent driving the child to class." The state is one of only a handful that pay for private-school busing, with 34 banning all public funding for private schooling. Patch wants to know what you think. Respond to our poll and offer your thoughts in the comment section …
At what point does accountability take a back seat to teaching to the test?
Even more tests appear to be in the future of New Jersey’s high school students. Recently, Gov. Chris Christie proposed replacing the state’s High School Proficiency Assessment, which most students have to pass to graduate, with a group of end-of-course exams for those in grades 9 through 11. The change is needed, according to Christie, because the HSPA only measures achievement at an eighth-grade level, and that’s not good enough for the modern world. At recent budget hearings, state college presidents said they wind up spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars on remedial courses to bring freshmen up to collegiate level because these new students are coming in unprepared. Obviously, students need to have the appropriate skills …
Saturday, May 12, 2012
During graduation ceremonies held on Friday on Rider's main campus in Lawrence Township, 806 baccalaureate degrees were handed out.
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Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Rider University. Rider University proudly bestowed the honorary Doctor of Science upon Dr. Maureen Maguire ’75, Carolyn F. Jones Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, at the University’s 147th Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 11. Rider President Mordechai Rozanski also conferred 806 baccalaureate degrees to students who had successfully completed their studies the previous week. They join 410 who received their diplomas the night before at the Graduate and College of Continuing Studies Commencement, and 131 who will receive theirs at the 83rd Westminster Choir College …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Do you agree? Take our own poll below
Good news for Gov. Chris Christie. Not only do a majority of New Jersey residents have a favorable few of the governor in the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind poll, his numbers are up a healthy bit since last year. Read FDU's full statement on the poll, and take our own poll at the bottom of this post to let us know what you think: New Jerseyans, for the second survey in a row, say the state is headed in the right direction, a phenomenon not seen in eleven years of polling by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind™. According to the most recent statewide survey, 50% say the state is headed in the right direction, while 41% say it’s on the wrong track. However, public employees do disagree: 50% of public employee …
Graduate commencement was held Thursday evening; undergraduate commencement - when over 800 degrees will be handed out - will take place today, Friday, May 11.
Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Rider University. Rider University proudly bestowed the honorary Doctor of Humane Letter upon Aaron Gast, Ph.D., trustee emeritus on the Board of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation of Princeton, at the University’s graduate and College of Continuing Studies ceremony on Thursday, May 10. In addition to Gast, Rider President Mordechai Rozanski conferred 410 degrees to students who had successfully completed their studies. Among these are graduate students receiving master’s degrees and undergraduates from Rider’s College of Continuing Studies, who earned their bachelor’s and associate degrees. Rozanski congratulated the evening’s graduates, who made up part of Rider’s total …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Governor's plans for testing will leave out fall-back test, but appeal process will survive.
As the Christie administration launches new high-stakes testing for New Jersey’s high school students, acting Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said that he intends to continue an appeals process that last year was the last resort for roughly 1,000 students to graduate. “I do think there should be a safety valve for those who are going through special challenges,” Cerf said in an interview. But Cerf reiterated that the alternative testing now in place for thousands more students who fail the state’s high school test will be discontinued. “I don’t believe we should have something that is giving an unrealistic and inaccurate measure of where a child stands,” he said. The fate of the alternative test and the appeals process has been in …
About half of those polled approve of the job Obama is doing.
Our Republican governor gets good marks from the Garden State, but so does our Democratic president, according to the latest poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind. Barack Obama also has a solid lead over Mitt Romney in New Jersey, according to the poll — especially among women. Read the full statement from FDU below, then take our own poll to let us know what you think? According the latest poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind™, 50 percent of New Jersey voters say they approve of the way the president is handling his job, while 42 percent disapprove. These numbers mirror the support expressed by New Jerseyans for their Republican governor, Chris Christie, as reported yesterday: 56 percent approve of the job …
william kramer
8:47 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
You SHOULD run for BOE just so you can run your own disclaimer. One of the many unspoken perks of the office. more ›